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JACK TUCKER Des Moines, Iowa
Since then, Ed Price, who has held down almost every bench job in the shop, has boosted Solar Aircraft until it has 4,200 employees. Last week the company announced an $8,000.000 contract from Packard to make parts for J47 turbojets, was building a $1,700,000 second plant...
The Government's three-year-old freeze on new TV stations, said FCC Chairman Wayne Coy, will probably be lifted within six months. Even then, cities without stations (e.g., Denver, Des Moines, Corpus Christi) will probably not get them built for another year at least-until FCC has had...
Pause that Refreshes. In Des Moines, after robbing a nearby bank of $11,629, Edward Wiese stopped at a bar, tossed down two $100 bills for two rounds of beer for the house, was later traced and nabbed on tips provided by his fair-weather friends.
In the last 40 years, the number of U.S. daily newspapers has dropped from 2,600 to 1,772. As a result, the number of "monopoly cities" (i.e., cities with no competitive dailies) has risen to a startling 1,300. Is this bad for journalism? Many newsmen, and such outside...